February 8th, 2010
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I love my job but that does not stop me from checking out the job postings from my favorite companies. A while back I noticed that Kimber was looking for a Director of Product Management (the listing is still up). Whow… talk about holy grail. Unfortunately, that would be a great job if I was 10 year further into my career and willing to leave the great Northwest.
I also noticed that Crimson Trace has been posting some interesting jobs. A while back they had something in marketing. They are a Portland company too, which I think is great. Lasers (add Dr. Evil inflection), guns and Portland. The only thing better would be actually being allowed to carry your gun in Portland.
February 8th, 2010
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A) Come on do you really think resorting to photoshop trickery will help your politics?
B) Photoshop fakers always F up the details, although this one was getting close.
Maybe email clients should have built in snopes/fact checkers?
February 5th, 2010
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Great infographic showing functional satellites, nonfunctional satellites and debris over 10cm by country.
Thus we can calculate Functional to Junk (non-functional + debris) Ratio:
Countries Shooting Stuff Into Space On The Regular:
USA: 453/(683+3258)= 11.49%
Russia: 86/(1310+2690)= 2.15%
China: 40/(29+2690)= 1.47%
France: 13/(29+2690)= 3.69%
China+Brazil: 3/(0+60)= 5%
India: 17/(17+106)= 13.8%
Nato: 3/(5+0)= 60%
2 for 2 Club:
Nigeria
Pakistan
1 for 1 Club:
Iran
Portugal
Kazakhstan
Mauritius
Morocco
Algeria
The Chump Club:
Columbia 0/1
South Africa 0/1
From Wikipedia:
The present means for spacecraft shielding, such as those used for the manned modules of the International Space Station, are only capable of protecting against debris with diameters below about 1 centimetre (0.39 in).
February 5th, 2010
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My friend just got a Sig 226. Now he has to find 9mm ammo. Good luck my friend… good luck.
February 3rd, 2010
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LA Police Gear is closing out the 5.11 Origional Tactical Pants for $17 bucks.
I hear great things about these pants so I bought two.
Also I looked up a coupon. You can use “tweet” and get an extra 10% off. Yeah for the interwebz.
February 2nd, 2010
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January 28th, 2010
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If nothing else you can say that the Obama understand that the interwebz are not a big truck. Check this thing out. Ask the President a Question on Youtube. Reminds me of what Digg has been doing for a while.
January 28th, 2010
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I came away from yesterdays iPad news with mixed feelings. A giant iPod touch? Hmmm…. Not sure that’s something I want. After all it lacked some of the features I thought it should have. But when I thought about it, I was wanting more of a computer and what they released if much more of a reader.
With that in mind I set out to evaluate it against the Barns and Noble Nook and the Amazon Kindle.
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 |
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| Features |
Nook |
Kindle |
iPad |
| Screen |
6″ E-inc/Color |
6″/9.7″ E-inc |
9.7″ of LED Backlit Apple Kick-ass-ness |
| Wireless |
Wifi/3G |
Wifi/3G |
Wifi/3G |
| Wireless Plan |
Free 3G |
Free 3G |
$15 |
| Books Cost |
Around $9 |
Around $9 |
$15? |
| Book Store |
Barns and Noble |
Amazon |
Apple, and Probably Amazon and BN via their Apps |
| Interface |
Partial Touch Screen |
Buttons |
Multi-touch |
| Email |
Maybe |
Extra |
Oh Ya |
| Expandability |
SD Cards |
None |
None |
| Hackability |
Its running Android/Linux… |
I guess it can be done |
Steve Jobs is watching you |
| Other Things it Does |
Not Much |
Not Much |
Various other Multi-media, Games, Apps from the Apple App store. |
Lowest Price Model |
$259 |
$259 |
$499 |
Conclusion: The iPad, although lacking free 3G, is a reader +. If you are going to buy a reader you should strongly consider the iPad. If you are looking for a small computer you should consider the MacBook Air or any one of the unwashed masses of netbooks.
I think its important to remember that Apple Steve was not looking to reinvent the laptop.
